Auburn airplane germ study mentioned on NBC Nightly News

Researchers in the Loveliest Village on the Plains have released a study on the nastiest diseases on the planes. And it isn’t exactly comforting.

Classics like E. coli and new killer on the block MERS can apparently lurk for a week or more on pretty much everything you’d touch up in the germ-friendly skies. The news was distressing enough for the Lester Holt treatment (CNN, too) on Tuesday’s edition of NBC Nightly News.